• LostWanderer@fedia.io
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    4 hours ago

    It’s good to see these losers put on blast, keep on making it clear we know they are up to some bullshit and that they need to stop it!

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      2 hours ago

      Conservative bullies believe they’ll almost always win in the end if they just keep at it and force their way through to their end goal. For most business & personal goals where they have significant control over most variables, this unfortunately tends to work out well for them. So they believe they can apply it to everything.

      Social & societal issues are areas where they have significantly less direct control (unless you have control over most everything that society is exposed to from practically the day they’re born), which is why they rely upon lies and manipulation so much. The complexity of managing things you have less direct control over makes being successful at it much more unpredictable, however.

      Since bullying their way through is their instinctive modus operandi, they’ll still try to do it with these issues no matter what feedback they get. So while it may feel satisfying to put them on the spot, they’re unlikely to take the feedback seriously - even from their own base.

      It’s blatant arrogance that has been the hallmark of the MAGA world, and which ultimately will be their undoing. Unfortunately, we still have to sit through the process even though it’s so easy to see where it’s going. Kinda like watching a show with your kids that’s predictable AF, but that they’re loving because they think they’ve never seen anything like it before even though the basic storyline has been done a million times in their other shows.

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      2 hours ago

      that works on regular people like you or me because we have morals, empathy, some form of consciousness… Johnson and the rest of the circus are just complete sociopaths… he couldn’t care about this lady or her kids, to him they are as important as a discarded toe nail

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        1 hour ago

        It’s about exerting political pressure, which has been shown to work with these clowns, as Trump and crew have backed down multiple times due to the people making their displeasure known. He likely doesn’t directly care about the lady or kids, however, he does care about how he is seen directly after this interview. As it would harm the fulfillment of his self-interest; public perception matters, and that is why the Alt-Right always desperately rehab their image after the times Republicans held Political offices and unilaterally failed the USA.

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          no my dude, they are way past that… they used to care because they needed to win further elections but they know they can’t anymore which is why they are militarizing every city with a demographic sizeable enough to threaten them

          trumps own appro…al rating is is the toilet and he has not changed course internally one bit…he is still buckling internationally because he can’t strong arm every other country

          you guys are not getting out of this by voting or debating

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      3 hours ago

      I agree with the sentiment but can we stop using words like “put on blast”, “slammed”, “claps back”? Thank you.